Yi 36: freedom i have because i don't care about people's opinion of me

 related trouble avoided

Other titles: The Symbol of Freedom from Error, Integrity, Without Embroiling, Pestilence, Fidelity, No Error, Freedom from Vainness, Instinctive Goodness, The Simple, Correctness

Hilary  Barrett:

"To be entangled is to be caught up in futile, groundless things: deluded beliefs, or reckless actions, or a compulsion to rewrite the past or control the future. When you are without entanglement, you recognize what is not yours, and you will not take it on. Sometimes other people's problems are not yours to solve. 

Freedom from entanglement brings extraordinary energy. It liberates the whole creative flow, from source to enduring fruition, natural and spontaneous as a growing plant. This is the creative potential latent in the present moment. To connect with it, you need to be conscious of your place on the earth,and set yourself straight accordingly. Entanglements are groundless; if you realign your course with present reality, you are well grounded. If you don't, you will make bad mistakes.

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Wang is the symbol of being reckless, and often of being insincere; Wû Wang is descriptive of a state of entire freedom from such a condition.

Yi 35: trouble avoided because i don't care what anyone thinks about me

 

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Yi 34 Veronica re this repository 3

  Veronica re this repository 2

Hilary Barrett:

"This is about natural beauty, like the beauty of a plant, whose form is the perfect, simple expression of its nature. It's also about the way people create images to communicate something of a person's or thing's inner nature.

This becomes a fruitful way to engage with the world when you have a purpose in mind – like someone who becomes a suitor for the sake of his bride, or a figure of authority for the sake of those she teaches. This is an image created for the sake of communication and relationship, as a first step towards a chosen destination."

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honda knot exposition drop points 1

We learn about Olivia and Tom through Barbara telling Brian.

We learn about Chloe re SLO and age, etc., through Wanda telling Daisy.

We learn about Gil, Maria, the boys through Ruth telling Hunter.

We learn about Ruth through Chloe telling Jan, John and Barbara.

We learn about Tom and Wanda moving through Gil telling Dale.

We learn about John and Jan through Hunter telling Tom.

We learn about Wanda through Tom telling Hunter and Chloe.

We learn about Daisy and Clem through Gil telling Maria.

We learn (more) about Tom and Wanda through Kate telling Cedric.

We learn about Jackie through Chloe telling Jan, John and Barbara.

We learn about Jackie and Hunter through Sess telling Claire.

We learn about Tom re Vietnam through him telling Hunter and Chloe re rodeo interruption, and through Gil telling Hunter.

Yi 33: Veronica @ First Sight

She came out of her office, looked up, saw me in the hallway, approaching. I saw her eyelids flutter uncontrollably, and her left knee buckle. I kept moving, not a word said.  

Hilary Barrett:

"To see is not to focus on some specific thing, but to witness everything that comes into view, with open awareness like a heron seeing a lake.

In the ritual, the everyday world is washed off – and then there is a breathless pause. It is not yet time to make the offering, but only to watch for what comes, 'like a presence', into the space. In ordinary life, also, you can pause before falling automatically into the next step of the process, and see what is present before you respond. Into this space between actions comes truth, its presence as unmistakable as a great person's aura. You need only watch for it as it comes."

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(...BY showing me...) 

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Yi 32: re not Forcing Work when Blocked

somedays, like today, it's clear not much is going to get done re Work and experience has taught to not force. what good that? 

so i do what small work i can. a small step is a still a step forward, and there's always something to throw Small Taming at.

Yi 32: Small Taming today

 

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Yi 31: Veronica re this repository 2

 Veronica this repository 1

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Yi 30: TAWIMD 6: this repository 3

 TAWIMD 5

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Yi 29: mistake missed because i have followed my own path

 

Hilary Barrett:

The Chinese character for 'Confined' or 'oppressed' shows a tree completely encircled by walls: an image of entrapment and isolation. You are cut off and cannot reach out to others. The great person finds good fortune in constancy to an inner ideal. This is the supreme test of character: whether you can hold to your purpose when there is no encouragement, no confirmation from outside, but only your own inner resources.

The Image

Legge: An abyss beneath the marsh that drains its water -- the image of ppression. Thus the superior man will sacrifice his life to attain his purpose.

Wilhelm/Baynes: There is no water in the lake: the image of Exhaustion. Thus the superior man stakes his life on following his will.

Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes a marsh in which no water (appears). The Superior Man risks his life to carry out his will.

Liu: The lake with no water symbolizesOppression. The superior man would give up his life to achieve his purpose.

Ritsema/Karcher: Marsh without stream. Confining. A chun tzu uses involving fate to release purpose.

Cleary (1): A lake with no water is exhausted. Therefore superior people use life to the full and achieve their aim. [When people lack purpose their path is at an end. Therefore they use life to the full to achieve their aim… Using life to the full means to get to the end of conditioned life; achieving one’s aim means to achieve the primordial life… Using the temporal to restore the primordial, ending false life and establishing real life, producing being in the midst of nothingness, seeking life within death, getting through an exhausting impasse, is like a lake without water again being filled with water.]

Cleary (2): …Developed people accomplish their will by living out their destiny. [Developed people only live out their destiny; they do not willingly try to avoid following and accepting it. Being strong and balanced, they are able to be joyful even in danger; this is the will that is up to oneself. Developed people intend to accomplish their will and do not vacillate just because they run into problems.]

Wu: The marsh has no water; this is Hardship. Thus the jun zi is prepared to dedicate his life to fulfill his commitments. [A marsh devoid of water is like a man deprived of his intellectual pursuits. This is unacceptable to a jun zi. He would rather fight to the end than surrender to idiocy.]

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